This book is incredibly multi-layered. The story not only takes place in a boarding school where Karim, the hero, fights tyranny, mobbing, and injustice but also it is a political story that picks out corruption as a central theme. The story is a highly varied work of art ranging from fantasy to reality. A jigsaw puzzle piece from the big picture of Africa.

Karim can talk with school desks, doors and chalkboards. Barely has he entered for the first time the boarding school, all things turn to him: friendly, helpfully, but also with their worries......